109 Best Quotes To Inspire and Empower Strong Women

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” 

Maya Angelou

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.” From “Mansfield Park”

Jane Austin

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

Oprah Winfrey

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.”

Serena Williams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Charlotte Whitton

Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

Margaret Thatcher

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” 

Angela Davis

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right.”

Rosa Parks

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of,”

Angelina Jolie

If you do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”

Katharine Hepburn

It’s not about being perfect. It’s not about where you get yourself in the end. There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.”

Michelle Obama, “Becoming”

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.”

Rosa Parks

Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are.”

Oprah Winfrey

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Amy Tan, “The Kitchen God’s Wife”

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody”

Maya Angelou

I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will.”

Amy Schumer

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.”

Amy Poehler

There’s something special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer.”

Rihanna

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman.” 

Melinda French Gates

I’ve just never cared what people think. It’s more if I’m happy and I’m confident and feeling good. That’s always been my thing. And more so now, since having a family—I don’t seek out any other acceptance,”

Kelly Clarkson

Never apologize for being a powerful woman”

Unknown

The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved, women who live bravely, both tender and fierce, women of indomitable will.”

Amy Tenney

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”

Diane Mariechild

Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.”

Maya Angelou

If you’re comfortable with yourself and know yourself, you’re going to shine and radiate, and other people are going to be drawn to you,”

Dolly Parton

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”

Sheryl Sandberg

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”

Marge Piercy

She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”

Atticus

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.”

Arlene Rankin

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Rosa Parks

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention.”

Pink

Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.”

Helen Keller

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.”

Judy Garland

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”

Clare Boothe Luce

Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.”

Michelle Obama

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”

Albert Einstein

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

Rosalynn Carter

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

Nora Ephron

A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.”

Nancy Rathburn

You must love and care for yourself because that’s when the best comes out.”

Tina Turner

You must know that you can do this. You are strong. And you will make it. Just hang on and keep believing in yourself, always.”

Heather A. Stillufsen

There’s got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

Viola Davis

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”

Carly Simon

Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.”

Anita Roddick

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong, I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”

Audrey Hepburn

There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy, and I think that’s a message a lot of women need to hear.”

Viola Davis

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anais Nin

Don’t let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.”

Angelique Kidjo

Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton

She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” 

Proverbs 31:25

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Viola Davis

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”

Margaret Thatcher

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”

Jennifer Lopez

What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.”

Angelique Kidjo

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

Oprah Winfrey

Give a woman pain and she’ll turn it into power. Give that woman chaos and she’ll create peace.”

R. H. Sin

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.”

Shonda Rhimes

Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”

Nancy Pelosi

Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.”

Viola Davis

Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

I am different. I am an original. And like everyone else, I am here to take up space in the universe.”

Shonda Rhimes

God is within her, she will not fall.”

Psalm 46:5

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.”

Ava Duvernay

The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.”

Amy Tenney

I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.”

Angelique Kidjo

Don’t be anybody’s “idea” of a woman”

Shonda Rhimes

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.”

Anne Frank

By the grace of God, I am what I am.”

1 Corinthians 15:10

Am I good enough? Yes, I am.”

Michelle Obama

She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow.”

R. G. Moon

I am on my own mountain standing in my own sun.”

Shonda Rhimes

I am woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.”

Maya Angelou

The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.”

R. H. Sin

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be ration adn so discipline they can be free.”

Kavita Ramdas

When you’re in your lane, there’s no traffic.”

Ava Duvernay

Don’t apologize. Don’t explain. Don’t ever feel less than. When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it.”

Shonda Rhimes

I think the truth of the matter is, people who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love and it just so happens that they are the first to do it.”

Condoleezza Rice

I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn’t need to hide behind her husband’s back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don’t play victim, you don’t make yourself look pitiful, you don’t point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.”

C. JoyBell C

Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us.”

Jessica Valenti

Figure out who are you separate from your family. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else.”

Angelina Jolie

I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.”

Kerry Washington

You can’t be hesitant about who you are.”

Viola Davis

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women”

Malala Yousafzai

I am different. I am an original. And like everyone else, I am here to take up space in the universe.”

Shonda Rhimes

Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.”

Nikita Gill